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The easiest way I can see in a quick look is to click on your name at the upper right and look at your profile-it shows you all activity you have ever done, but I did not see a way to only see which topics you started. ... View more

@Loukas389,   I hate to give you bad news, but what @AlvaroChirou said is completely incorrect and the advice he gave you is illegal in the United States (which is where the Udemy platform is based).   (1) You CANNOT use the images from https://wallpaperscraft.com without their written consent. Their website is copyrighted, and so are the graphics on it. If you want to use their intellectual property in your course (which is a for-profit venture), you need permission.   If you want some free images to use, please go to https://pixabay.com, where they give permission to freely use their images.   (2) As for music, I don't like to use music in my courses, but just like the images you asked about in (1) above, you CANNOT simply use someone else's recordings. While the classical music falls under fair use (you can record yourself playing it on your piano and use it in your course), you can't just take someone else's recording and use it. That breaks copyright, and again, this is cause for you to get sued or your course removed from Udemy.   (3) It sounds like you have a lot of knowledge to share, so I would spend some time investing the marketplace and determining what is the most valuable knowledge you have in order to sell it. For example, my husband/partner (@JasonDion)  has degrees in Human Resources, IT/Cybersecurity, and Counseling. All of our courses are on IT/Cybersecurity because we found that to be the most lucrative and profitable market for him to teach in. Do some research with the Insights tool and figure out where you may best fit in.   (4) Should you drop everything and go fulltime? Not likely. Most people take years to be able to earn enough consistently to replace their fulltime job. For example, it took us over 15 courses and more than a two years to reach a point where we would have been comfortable having Jason quit his job.    Creating courses isn't a "get rich quick" thing. If you are unemployed and need to feed yourself and your family, get a regular job right now and work the courses in your spare time. Anyone who tells you different is lying.    After all, even if you sold $1000 this month, you won't get that money for atleast another 60 days from Udemy. How will you eat during that time? This is why you need a real job in the meantime.    Instructors who simply "pump out courses" for the money rarely succeed and are often disappointed. It takes time to build up a following and find success. Plus, it takes weeks or months to build a course. Trust me, take it slow, find some small success, then build up to bigger successes!   Tamera Dion ... View more

Jason is a great teacher in any medium and loves to help others as time permits! ... View more

So I will do a quick response on @JasonDion's behalf. His first course was rough. He had been teaching in class and was about to transition into online teaching at the college he was at due to having to travel for his day job. So, the last session of his Network+ class he had, he recorded the entire thing and put it up on youtube for the students to reflect on. It was bad. It was a poor set of slides and him talking into one of those ball mics that was set up on a podium-but he paces while he talks, so sound would fade in and out. A friend of ours suggested putting it up on Udemy to see what could happen. He launched it the week after Black Friday 2016 and it made $56 in that short month-which was more than we ever expected.    After seeing that this could be possible, Jason went and wrote and recorded a new course. First, he went and watched all the training videos Udemy provides about how to best create a course. That course did ok, so we did another, and another. Over time we now have over 25 courses, and have refined our skills so far beyond what they were at the start. I am now the full time video editor leaving him as the head instructor, and we have a team of VA's that help keep up with reviews, questions, etc. There are a TON of great courses on Udemy that will help you learn how to edit in what ever platform you are using, and other courses that show the benefit of different cameras and mics. I highly suggest doing a search of the community to look for posts about these things to find the right ones for you and your budget as you get started out. We started with $20 mic and a cheap but decent webcam. ... View more

No, I don't need to take one. We all know he didnt get that many on his first course, first 2 days without it being through free coupons mass sent out, or having the course as free during that time period. I was talking about your reasoning of it being a record, and how you were giving what is known as a back handed compliment to someone. What is kinder and more helpful is to congratualate and give better steps of action. ... View more

So looking at your course, and the 2 reviews there are so far, it looks like it is a decent course so far. When I went to watch the videos there is a high pitched hum throughout the background though that may lead some students to never complete the course, so hopefully that was only on the couple videos I looked at. It appears you put up free coupons in various free coupon groups, and honesty that is never the way to do free coupons. The best way to use them is to limit them and give them directly to people you know would at least watch some of it and look at it and give you good feed back (if none of your testers told you about that high pitched sound, they were telling you what you wanted to hear.) Going the route of putting free coupons out there for anyone, or having your course as free for the first couple days wont find you the students you want to help the algorithm kick in. Those students tend to be collectors who will never look at a single video of the course. If you do the dedicated route, say by being helpful online in spaces where students are studying Scrum, you can make a deal with the admin to share a free code to the first x number of students and a discount code to others-I honestly wouldn't even mention reveiws. Also, I am curious, how do you know you have a 98% test pass rate with this course? Have you taught this before? I didn't see that as a focus in your about you section, and if you mentioned it in the video, I apologize for being unable to watch all the free ones as that sound really hurt my ears-I am sensitive to high pitched noises. ... View more

But you've seen them? Or are you just assuming things? ... View more

I personally think it is a nice, succent title for what you are aiming to teach. On the marketing side, I don't quite know how to approach that. ... View more

I wouldn't set it up as a free course that is open to the market-there are many course collectors that will never watch, and if they do wont really leave any feedback. Setting it up as a private, free course could work if you were intentional about who you let view the course so that way you know you are going to get valid feedback.    As for removing after, you can unpublish a course, but not truly remove as course from the platform as students are promised lifetime access to any courses they own. By unpublishing no one new can join, but the ones who had it already can look at it whenever they want.   ... View more

We are finishing up two courses before the end of the month! And then of course, we are also counting the days until Udemy Live! Cannot wait to see everyone. ... View more

I'd say that is pretty good for your first month on Udemy! ... View more

So, when we first started out we did NOT think a thing about how we organized our stuff. We had a folder for the adobe files we created in a folder with the course name, and all the videos were simply numbered 1-however many we had. We have since learned that was not a great method. Now, we store everything in a Google drive so that Jason and I, and our employees can access the things from anywhere. We have the course archive for courses that are completed. In there we have folders for each course, in each folder we have the adobe files for everything, the raw source files for everything, captions, course notes, completed files in a couple versions: ones without our company bumper on the end and ones with. The ones with get uploaded to sites like Udemy and without goes on our own platform (they are already there, they dont need the reminder!)   We also learned the hard way that you need a good naming scheme from the start. So we have courses like ITIL4 and Network+ for example. We take the name of the course and shorten it to attach to each file, ITIL4 for example is shortened to I4F for ITIL4 Foundation. Then we number in a methodical way, so I4F_00_00 (name) for the Promo, 01_01 (name) for the welcome message, 01_02 (name) for continuing videos in that section. Then we go down and do 02_01 for the next section and so on. We use sections like chapters and break those down into basically sub sections of topics for each lesson. It makes searching for things SO much easier.   Definately come up with a good naming system from the start-because that was one of the BIGGEST hassles to update when we realized we needed to be much more methodical! ... View more

The badges here in the community are just to show how active you are. If you have one where it shows you have received 100 likes for example, it gives an idea to other instructors that maybe you give good advice. There are various ones for responses given, posts creates, likes accrued, etc. It is just a way to give others an idea of how knowledgeable you may be. That said, many do collect badges because they comment on everything and make lots of random posts-badges are just one factor to look at to see if someone is delivering good advice or not. ... View more

@JasonDionhas been on udemy for a little over 2 years now. When we put up our first course it was one that he had taught in class at a local community college. It was his voice over the powerpoints he used for the course. Since then we have used a few different spaces in our house as studio space, have gone from super cheap back drops, to green painted walls, and now have an awesome green screen. We have gone from lower end mics to better ones, and have gone from using a literal webcam to record our talking head videos to a more professional camera. I may not be the face the students see, but I have been here with him through the whole process and do all the editing for him now! ... View more

Honestly, while many students do end up buying longer courses, what works best in the long run is a course at the length you need to cover a subject fully, without adding too much extra fluff that is not needed to grasp it.   Initially many students think longer means better until they get into the course and discover it has too much information that is not needed, and then they reflect that in their reviews of that course. ... View more

The good news is with the app for phones, you can download the videos while on wifi for watching on the go and not using data! ... View more

How did I miss this post? LOL ... View more

That depends on their copyrights. You would need to contact each one for permission. ... View more

My understanding is no, you are not supposed to. I would suggest asking support directly. https://support.udemy.com/hc/en-us/articles/229232847-Bonus-Lecture-Rules-and-Guidelines ... View more

One way we keep positive is simply seeing how many we are helping. Each student that posts about how they were able to pass their exams keeps us going, each one that tells us they could not grasp the subjects until they came across our courses is inspiring. Even on the days when negative reviews come in, knowing that the positives vastly outweigh the negatives helps us continue creating and improving our courses.   All in all we follow Dory's advice though. ... View more

The best way to make it look like eye contact is to look directly in the lens-though I have noticed on things like my phone and ipad, when trying to get a selfie or something like that, if I am using the front facing camera, if I look at my forehead when recording it looks like I am making eye contact. Generally though, when recording, look directly into the center of the lens for the eye contact look. ... View more

Speed yourself up in like, premier. Then you sound like a chipmunk! ... View more

So I am digging the colorful logo shirt that James is wearing... ... View more

Or the how-to build courses tutorials that Udemy has? Those are here. ... View more

What do you mean by where do you find the courses? Yours that you have uploaded? Ones you are interested in taking?  ... View more

1-The sound was a bit intense-I had to turn down my computer volume and the video volume because it was almost like there was a background sound-likely just the natural sounds around you.   2-The extreme lighting/shadow change partway through REALLY irritated me personally. Clouds or minor shifts in shadow would be one thing, but the extreme shadows across your body that came and went partway through were a bit much.   3-The sound at the end of the video was even LOUDER than the rest of the video and I scrambled to pause it because of how loud it was. I recommend decreasing the audio on that bumper piece so that it is not that big of a sound jump, unless of course you anticipate needing to wake someone at some point?   Again, those were all my takes on it. ... View more